Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexandrov said that he was in "complete agreement with the Harvard professors and Deans." An informal source indicated that perhaps, with a bit more work at the administrative level, a formal program could be set up to put the long-awaited exchange principle of the Lacey-Zarubin agreement into effect for the first time...
...There's no reason why realism shouldn't be poetic in its effect... But now that Kazan is beginning to impose on realistic plays like Sweet Bird and Cat [on a Hot Tin Roof] an operatic style, I think it's dangerous and forced." The mainstream of American drama ("I hate to use phrases like 'mainstream,'" says Tynan) has to do with "observable reality. I think--let's be frank--that Kazan has moved too far away from that without the moral or social realities that are necessary to sustain it. Even in a play like Our Town ... the performances...
...down and hammered it into shape. A relentless foe of back-room featherbedding, Jim took on a strike by the powerful International Typographical Union in 1948, kept the paper on the street, set up a nonunion shop, won the battle hands down. (The I.T.U. considers the strike still in effect to this day.) All told, Jim performed so well that Jack put him in overall charge as Miami general manager in 1951. Four years later, Jim Knight took over as publisher of a new Knight property: the fat and venerable Charlotte morning Observer...
...became notorious." As the Depression of the '30s closed in, Wright went bankrupt, finally incorporated himself and turned the rebuilt Taliesin into an apprentice school for architects. When the Museum of Modern Art staged its historic 1932 show of International Style architecture, Wright was represented, but in effect considered already dead and buried...
...from eleven nations, to celebrate the centenary of their first mission in Japan.* The Buddhists had just been in the same hall to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of Buddha's birth by posing such questions as "Does the accomplishment of sunya [nothingness] depend on pratityasamutpada [cause and effect]?" The Anglicans held a more down-to-earth meeting. There were speeches on the benefits of atomic energy and discussions of the Communist menace to Asia. But the high point of the meeting was the Communion service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher...